Beijing – Based on pre-Olympics reports in the New York Times, the Globe and Mail, CNN and more, I wouldn’t have been completely surprised to see children smoking in Beijing restaurants, red-arm-band-wearing grandmothers turning their grandkids over to the secret police, and green-uniformed People’s Liberation Army soldiers ripping the cameras off my tired shoulders.

The owners of an old west-end factory loft building have a pest problem, and they’re stopping at nothing to exterminate it. The downside for residents is that they’re the pests.